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Post #1254181

Author
yotsuya
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Info: Star Wars - What is wrong and what is right... Goodbye Magenta
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Date created
4-Nov-2018, 8:57 PM

Ronster, I have mixed feelings about pissing you off. Did you finally calibrate your monitor? How about this, have you checked the lighting where your monitor is? That can change how you see colors. Check every variable. I check mine with photos, videos, paper prints. I compare with real life and how photos I take look. For instance, I check that shot of Leia facing Vader against other movies Carrie was in, videos, old and new. I check it with people around me with similar complexions. I consider the light on set and all the other vaiables. I look at all the old transfers. I look at the professionally printed posters and stills, such as several books and the original 1977 soundtrack LP and story LP. I found the Blu-ray of American Grafitti to be very enlightening in general for colors. No weird colors there. But you have to be sure your monitor is showing the right colors. Flesh tones are the hardest thing to get right. You have to balance red and yellow to get the right peach/tan/brown color.

I would really like to see what you can do, but if you stick with what you have posted so far, you have taken away too much red and screwed up the skin tones. Something hasn’t been right and many of us have urged you to start with calibrating your monitor. If you don’t do that, we can’t help you isolate the error in your setup.